A sweet diary

by cealdra

Being collected

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(( Alright, first of all sorry for the masive OC-ness of the known charackters. I doubt i could write IC for a existing charackter if my life depend on it.))

To be quite honest, after receiving the message yesterday I had spend the rest of the day and most of the morning that the letter had to be some kind of prank. It would not have surprised me if a old friend thought it would be funny to mess around with my head a little. I mean common! Getting selected for some freakish study in relationships. The more I thought about it the more ridiculous it became. As if there actually was some kind of agency that would coup up young people to study the way they form relations. But still, I had some clothes packed. My granny always said to me “It will never hurt to be prepared.”
The clock struck 12 noon exactly when a undisclosed purple, near lavender minivan stopped in front of the door. It was adorned with the same emblem as the letter received. Gulping I decided to damn it all and just risk it and just step aboard.

The trip to the HQ had been a dull one, a few hours of traveling through several small outlaying villages to collect a few more people. All were males in my age category, which is about 18 to 25. With me being one of the older at a age of 23. Strange when you start to think about it though, here we are going to some matchmaking researchcentre. But there were only males! Now last time I checked I was definitely straight, so you can imagine that the thought was making me a bit uncomfortable. But like they say, you have to finish what you start so suck it up and go through with it.
The HQ itself was amazing, in the letter they claimed to be seated at the edge of town so I expected something like one of those large office buidlings favored by large multinationals. But by all means I had not in my wildest dreams expected to see a huge mansion with a whole frigging city worth of free space around it. There was no other way to say this, but that thing was MASIVE. The entrance gates decorated with a symbol that could be decribed as a sun and a crescent moon. The flagpoles adorned flags with 2 winged and horned horses circling with a sun and moon. But that could not attract my attention as much as the ambiant flowerbeds and stretching grassfields arround the long drive way, hedgeart in many different shapes and sizes. A single thought came to mind; Who ever was the owner of this facility had more money then was good for them to be able to spend it on those lush items. Lost in thought and awe about the scenerie around I never realised the car had stopped in front of the mansion and that its front door had opened with a welcome comittie marching out. The small steps towards the door were adorned with a blue carpet, a very welcoming and comferting entrance hall could be seen through the mahogany doors. The 6 men that stood on oposite sides of eachother on the stairs to that hall were not so much. Thanks to my mother I had seen several secret agents in my life as she had received another deathtreat . But those had nothing on these guys. All moving in perfect unison, clad in starch white suits with no visable weaponary besides a sword dangling from their belts. But the most ofsetting was the way they all seemed to look exactly alike, altough it could be the clothing and the shades that made it appear that way.

Moments later we all stood in the grand entrance hall admiring the design and splendor of it when from one of the 2 stairs leading to the second floor a woman walked down. Judging from the slightly awkward movements and tendency to clutch the railing she either recovered from some serious leg fractures or never really learned to walk properly. My mind instantly reeled towards the first, but only later I learned just how wrong I had been. The woman donned in a simple but elegantly designed kneehigh skirt and blouse of a deep lavender color matching her long straight hair exept for that small pink and deep purple streak in the middle. But I noticed something strange about her atire aswell, something I had dismissed before but I could not help but notice the similarities of it all. She wore a small band of white ribbon adorned with a almost shining blue crystal on her left arm. Something those 6 guards had worn aswel except theirs was was golden yellow with a red crystal.

Before I could overthink the strangeness of it all I was crudely shaken out of my train of thought by the sound of someone giddely clapping their hands together combined with a small high pitched squee. “Welcome, welcome all. I want to thank you all for sacrificing your precious time to aid us in our studies towards relationships.” I could hear some mutterings from the other arround me indicating my own thoughts. All were along the lines of sacrificing? We were dragged to this place. “Well before we all get a bit aquanted and start our research I would like all of you to just follow my assistant for he will be showing you to your room. At least the room where you will be staying for the first few days of our little experiment anyways.” She had not finished speaking when a young man of about 25 appeared wearing a purple and green hoody combined with jeans and hiking boots, and again with the strange ribbon with a glowing crystal on his arm.
With a obvious sigh of disaprovement the woman spoke to him “Spike! I thought I had told you to wear that set I had laid out for you. So why didnt you? You know a first impression is essential to good introductions!” The young man shrugged his shoulders and simply replied in a sarcastic tone “But Twilight, you said to wear what felt the most comfortable. So I did.” The conversation went on like this for a few minutes until the woman just gave up. And all the while my smile grew watching the spectacle, it was like watching a classic movie case of a mother and son bickering. But alas, to all good things come to an ending. “Well now, like I said before please follow spike and he will show you to your rooms.”

As I stood in the small room I knew one thing. I would need a map of this place, becouse I will get seriousely lost in the maze like structure of these hallways. The room itself was not to shabby, it was decorated like a normal hotel room. A rather large but comfy bed, a small table with 2 chairs, a cabinet for my clothing and a small bathroom complete with my own private shower. Overall a pretty nice place to hang arround for a while. Spike told us the run of things as we were walking to the nightwing as he called our place of residence of the moment. Thing like at what times breakfast, lunch and dinner were served. How to get our clothes washed and the likes. Aswell as the fact that dr. Sparkle, which he called twilight, would be visiting us throughout the day for a intervieuw and introductional conversation.
Well that small speech and the passing of ownership of a white crystal that was supposed to be my key to this room was about 4 hours ago. It took me about half a hour to even figure out how to open that blasted door! How was I supposed to know I only needed to hold that thing to the door and think about twisting a key in a lock. I had no idea for how long I would be stuck in here before that woman would come up to me for some small talk. I knew I was the last candidate they had selected from the numbers on the door. So I could be here for quite a while. Slouching on the bed I flipped on the TV searching for something nice to watch to kill the time.

*The goddess may know how much time has passed*
Slowly I started waking up to sounds in my room, I could not believe that I had fallen asleep. Grudgingly I opened my eyes, only to peer into 2 bright blue ones attached to a smiling girly head with a head full of frizzly pink curls.
“HI! You know Twilight was a bit disappointed when you didn't answer the door but then she thought you might had fallen asleep and so I volunteerd to check whether that was true as I came in I could see you were sound asleep, like curled up like a little foal sleeping soundly you know I usually sleep like that aswell especially after having been up aaaaaalllll night but not so much on normal workdays but anyway so Twilight asked me to tell you that she said to me that I was supposed to take you to her when you woke up again so here am I to tell you to follow me.”
Blinking a few times as my mind started to process the torrent of words spewing from this girls mouth. When the pieces were finally falling into place I could see her blinking a few times with a still growing grinning smile. Fearing another torrent if I did not act soon enough. “ohw ok, show the way I suppose.” Not even letting me finish she was already beckoning me to follow as she skipped out the room. Regrets about coming to this place were already starting to form in my mind.

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